Rag Radio political analysts
Glenn Smith and
Roy Casagranda join host
Thorne Dreyer in our regular feature, Digging In! to the News. We focus on the aftermath of the Dem debates and Roy leads a discussion about our situation with Iran.
Did Elizabeth Warren dominate the first debate and did Kamala Harris become a force to reckon with? Did Uncle Joe falter and is his position atop the heap in danger? And as Roy asked after Trump stepped back from the brink in Iran, "Why didn't we just start World War III?" Another question, this from Glenn: "Is the Gulf of Hormuz Iran's hole card, which it could shut down with a feather and plunge the world's oil and gas economy into chaos?"
In other news, immigration and this week's startling photo. The environment and the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline through the Edwards Aquifer. And, Trump is going to meet with Putin in Japan: "Is he being called to the principal's office?"
Progress Texas PAC director
Glenn W. Smith, is an op-ed columnist for the
Austin American-Statesman, a columnist for
The Quorum Report, and a former political reporter for the
Houston Chronicle and
Houston Post. A leading political consultant, Glenn managed Ann Richards' winning 1990 Texas gubernatorial campaign.
Roy Casagranda is Professor of Government at Austin Community College where he teaches U.S. and Texas politics. His areas of research include Middle East history and politics, U.S. foreign policy, political philosophy, and warfare. Casagranda serves as an analyst on Middle East Political Affairs for the Austin ABC affiliate, KVUE.
Photo above: Glenn Smith, left, and Roy Casagranda at the KOOP studios in Austin, June 28, 2019. Photo by Roger Baker / Rag Radio.
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with
The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at
KOOP.org and Radio Free America. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement. The show’s engineer and co-producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is guest host; Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts, and Evan Hearn is the Rag Radio apprentice. The syndicated show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. Central) on KOOP, and is later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH -- and as a featured podcast at
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Running time: 55:49
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